Kanadas Vertrag 8 First Nations: Alberta muss alle Trennungsaktivitäten sofort einstellen
https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/canadas-treaty-8-first-nations-alberta-must-immediately-cease-all-separation-activities/
Kanadas Vertrag 8 First Nations: Alberta muss alle Trennungsaktivitäten sofort einstellen
https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/canadas-treaty-8-first-nations-alberta-must-immediately-cease-all-separation-activities/
3 Kommentare
Edmonton treating Section 35 like a minor clerical error is certainly a choice. You cannot redraw international borders across Treaty 8 territory just because the provincial executive finds Crown obligations inconvenient. The courts already shot the last attempt down. Ignoring the judiciary to push a separation referendum anyway turns this from standard political theatre into a severe constitutional crisis.
That approach is kinda weird. Albertan’s have the right to raise a referendum and to give a mandate to their elected official to work a path to independence. Trying to stop what is fundamentally a proper democratic process by using some old treaty might instead have the opposite effect than wished.
I feel like this was the wrong approach.
Countless polls showed that Albertan separatism was going to fail, I’m confident it still will fail, but now there’s going to be civil unrest that likely didn’t need to happen.
There’s going to be protests, maybe even the blockading of infrastructure. Police are going to get involved. The NWC may very well be used, and *everyone* is going to come out of this far angrier than they needed to.